FairTax Act of 2019

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 25.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WOODALL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 1, January 3, 2019, Page H211):
  Clause 1, Section 8 of Article 1: ``The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 3, 2019 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  298 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 25, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/25

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b88e0e0fb9290297ed849f47af2bf91a8d6412e6a89b82a5b5abc349fd05ad60

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of January 3, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 25, last updated January 3, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 20, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.